WHICH WAY IS DAMASCUS …

What we are seeing unfold in the collapse of traditional international relations.

The weapons are at the ready before anyone refers to the United Nations. There has been no attempt to take any proposed action to the UN. Not only is the UN being marginalised, it is being removed completely from the political frame. This is a danger even more frightening than the weapons of Assad. No one is talking about a political resolution that first sees a period of calm so that civilians can gain some sort of grip on their life. Certainly no one is even thinking about what happens after any conflict. All that is being flagged up is war. There is every chance that this time next week the United States will have made a strike. These are crazy times and no one is considering for one second the suffering of the Syrian people ….